Before the Second World War most Jews in Europe lived in “Shtetls”, or small towns. During the Second World War, The National Socialist Party of Germany instituted their “final solution” where they carried out the largest ethnic cleansing in history.  They systematically moved from town to town and exterminated the Jews who lived there.  Within Hassidic Judaism, the various sects are named after the Shtetls from which their Grand Rabbis came from. The Grand Rabbi and a few of his followers from the Tosh sect managed to survive, immigrated to Montreal, and rebuilt a successful community in Boisbriand, Quebec. In the summer of 2007 I joined them on their visit to Tosh Hungary.  For a short time they re-inserted themselves into that landscape. This generation was born in Canada, but there was a certain familiarity and comfort in their ancestral home. The stories they heard from their parents or grandparents formed post-memories in their mind, and it was almost as if they did grow up in that land.  This concept of post-memory in Judaism can be traced back to the exodus from Egypt.  Every year at the Passover Seder we read the Haggadah, which retells that story. There is one sentence that always stays with me: "We must each view ourselves as if we had come out of Egypt". In each dyptych image, you can see on the right an image of the descendant of a survivor, and on the left there is a view of his ancestral home town.